Tutti giù per terra

10/28/2025

Puccioni's social horror In Tutti giù per terra (We all fall down), Marco Simon Puccioni condenses a profound reflection on trauma, silence, and survival into a brief yet emotionally charged narrative. Across its nineteen minutes, the short film revisits one of Puccioni's most persistent themes - the fragile resilience of those marked by exclusion and violence - through a story that unfolds in two contrasting worlds: the sunlit, deceptive innocence of a bullied child, and the cold, nocturnal solitude of the adult who still carries that wound. The film's stark visual precision and its refusal of sentimentality make it at once intimate and unsettling. This work resonates deeply with Puccioni's broader filmography, from Riparo and Come il vento, where private stories intersect with poli